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unusual facts about Canadian TV



Sergei M. Plekhanov

Since his arrival in Canada in 1993, he has been a frequent commentator on Russian and East European affairs for Canadian TV, radio networks, and print media, including TVO's Studio 2, The Agenda, CBC News, CBC's The Sunday Edition and CTV News.


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5B

Studio 5-B, a 1989 short-lived drama series about a Canadian TV news channel

Alan Hamel

In the late 1970s, he hosted The Alan Hamel Show, a popular daytime talk show on Canadian TV, and was the television spokesman for the Alpha Beta grocery stores in California and its sister chain Acme in the Northeast.

All This, and Heaven Too

Wind at My Back, a Canadian TV show drama set in the thirties, named the first episode of its fourth season after this movie.

Arlene Dickinson

She guest starred as a past version of herself on the Canadian TV series Murdoch Mysteries, in 2012, in the episode called "Invention Convention", as a possible investor.

Batsu game

A possible non-japanese example of a batsu game includes the "humiliations" that occur after one of the two titular participants fails a challenge in the Canadian TV show Kenny vs. Spenny.

Bruce Mackey

Bruce Mackey opened his home, 98 De Grassi St. in Toronto, to filmmakers Linda Schuyler and Kit Hood where they shot a short children's film which led to the Canadian TV Series, Kids of Degrassi Street.

Byron Chief-Moon

Chief-Moon has made appearances in several well-known American and Canadian TV shows (such as MacGyver, North of 60, Stargate SG-1, Da Vinci's Inquest, Highlander: The Series, and appeared on Walker, Texas Ranger, as well as several feature films.

Cassie Chadwick

She was the subject of the Canadian TV movie Love & Larceny (1985), where the role of Betsy Bigley was played by Jennifer Dale.

Catherine Mary Stewart

She is the sister of Alan Nursall, scientist and media personality who reports on science news for the Canadian TV series Daily Planet and the Discovery Channel.

Chris Lea

Lea, who hails from a family of entertainers that includes the 1950s Canadian TV icon Shirley Harmer, began a side career as an opera performer in 2002, and in February 2005 undertook his first on-stage solo in a performance of Gioacchino Rossini's The Barber of Seville.

Claire Lawrence

From 1986 to 1990, he scored the music for the long running Canadian TV series, The Beachcombers.

Cynthia Dale

She was a member of the judging panel of the Canadian TV show Triple Sensation in 2007.

Denise McCann

She also appeared as a featured performer on many Canadian TV shows, including The Alan Hamel Show and its replacement The Alan Thicke Show, the Wolfman Jack Show, The Paul Anka Show, and the Rene Simard Show.

Get Real

Get Real!, a programming block on the Canadian TV channel YTV

Ă–cal

Arda Ocal (born 1981), Turkish-Canadian TV and radio broadcaster

Paul Popowich

He also starred as drummer Jesse alongside Neve Campbell on the Canadian TV show Catwalk, about a struggling band of musicians, and as Joe Hardy in the 1995 The Hardy Boys television series.

Ryan Walter

He was also hired as a hockey expert for both seasons of Making the Cut, a Nike hockey commercial, and played himself on an episode of the Canadian TV series Being Ian.

Surprise Sur Prise

Surprise Sur Prise was a Canadian TV show of the Candid Camera pranks genre.

The Beachcombers

The series made Bruno Gerussi a highly visible star on Canadian TV, and between 1975 and 1984 he hosted a second series, Celebrity Cooks which aired initially on the CBC and later the rival Global network.

The Real Story of Happy Birthday to You

He has also composed music for other Canadian TV series such as Babar, Rupert, The Busy World of Richard Scarry, The Legend of White Fang, The Adventures of Paddington Bear, the 1997 version of Lassie, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Night Hood and The Neverending Story.

Todd Simpson

In 2011 Simpson was the 8th hockey player cast for the hit Canadian TV show "Battle of the Blades." He was partnered with United States Olympian Marcy Hinzmann.

Yuki-onna

In MythQuest, a 1990s Canadian TV show, Yuki Onna is featured in Episode 4 "Minokichi".